He waved an ungloved hand in the direction of a choric line.
Not while the choric Chant of creation Floweth from all things, Poured without pause, Cease we to echo Faintly the descant Whereto for ever Dances the world.
Lucifer is a large, majestic drama, and adorned with several beautiful choric odes.
Its choric structure is masterly, its spirit is running fire.
Harris has written some choric works for men and women also.
The choric work is marked throughout with the most intense and epic power, almost savagery; a magnificent martial zest.
But his choric odes are of great beauty, and his tirades, disproportionate as they are, show a considerable advance in the power of indicating character as well as in style and versification.
The fifth act is very short, containing a recital by Proculeius of the Queen's death, and a choric lament in quatrains.
On the contrary, his choric interludes are models of perfection in this style of lyric poetry, while their subject-matter is invariably connected with the chief concerns and moral lessons of the drama.
Meanwhile the dithyramb, as a tumultuous choric song, retained its individual existence.
But there were other choric hymns with special names, consecrated to the service of particular deities.
The whole of the Seven against Thebes, and in particular thatchoric ode which describes the capture and sack of a town, might be cited with a similar intention.
The stagnation, again, of civic life under imperial sway proved unfavorable to the composition of national odes and to choric celebrations in which whole peoples took a part.
Between the narration of Antilochus and the bringing-in of the dead body of Patroclus there must have been a solemn pause in the dramatic action, which AEschylus, no doubt, filled up with one of his great choric passages.
The dithyrambic element was lost; the choric odes providing a relief from violent excitement, instead of embodying the very soul and spirit of the poet's teaching.
The rivers of thy fire undying Beget bright day, our heart's desire: The throng of stars to greet thee flying Through cloudless heaven, join choric dances, Hailing thee king with ceaseless crying For joy of thy Phoebean lyre.
The choric odes, introduced at turning-points in the main action, are lyrical inter-breathings that connect the past and future with the present.
Stesichorus is a title that might have been given to any chorus-master in a Greek city; but Tisias of Himera won it by being emphatically the author of the choric system.
The choric odes did not degenerate into mere musical interludes.
Come, let us agree for the future not to regard each other any more as enemies; and to clinch the bargain, let us sing a choric song.
The Chorus insist on the conventional choric dance.
Huge and cumbrous boughs sweep back and forth, melodious, eloquent; and from tremulous leaf to swaying limb rises a choric song, beautiful, wonderful.
Greek: eisodos], or entrance, is generally applied to the entrance of the chorus, but the reference may be to that of the actors at the close of the choric songs.
Courtly friends, guards, and a choric bridal company, form a circle.
The fast-gathering cavaliers lend masculine character to the choric refrains at every interval.
Whatever of their waking time can be spared from the gathering and eating of the pine-apples is spent in singing choric songs in honour of the Great Sloth.
And the Great Sloth wearies us with the singing ofchoric songs when we long to be asleep.
But the Greeks disregarded this division: judging by the choric songs, we find that some of their tragedies have as many as seven, and some as few as two acts.
Milton in his own Samson Agonistes followed the Greek usage closely, and concluded the whole drama with a choric reflection upon the wisdom of God's dealings with the race of men.
Such purification of the passions as modern art achieves is to be found most eminently in the choricmovements of Handel, in the symphonies of Beethoven, in all the great achievements of music.
This fact is important, since it proves that even at this early period a dramatist felt justified not merely in departing from the myths of Dionysus, but also in treating the events of contemporary history in his choric tragedy.
Even in the choric hymns which he has once or twice attempted, he has spurned halt and ungainly metres, and given full freedom and scope to the cadence of his mother tongue.
Sometimes they read like a weak version of the choric songs of Euripides: sometimes the versification smacks of the school of Pope, and not unfrequently it betrays an undue intimacy with the writings of Barry Cornwall.
The adoption of the Greek choric metres, in some of the poems, appears to us the more inexplicable, because in others, when he descends from his classic altitudes, our author shows that he is by no means insensible to the power of melody.
In certain of his poems he tries to think like Sophocles, and has so far succeeded as to have constructed certain choric passages, which might be taken by an unlettered person for translations from the antique.
Perhaps the vast theatre and the grand choric accompaniments harmonised ill with his unheroic style.
He seems to have prided himself on his choric odes.
Demeter entering upbraids them in a choric scene and describes her search for Persephone until she learnt her fate from Helios.
Then we disagree no more, and really form a divine choric ballet around Him.
A discrete quantity such as a company of dancers, or choric ballet, is very far from being unity; a continuous quantity approximates that further; the soul gets still nearer to it, and participates therein still more.
In this choric ballet, the soul sees the source of life, the source of intelligence, the principle of being, the cause of the good, and the root of love.
He prescribes imperatively the doctrine and matter which alone is to be tolerated in his choric hymns or heard in his city.
Old men will not only find it repugnant to their natural dispositions, but will even be ashamed to exhibit themselves in choric music and dance before the younger citizens.
Side-note: The Elders require the stimulus of wine, in order to go through the choricduties with spirit.
The purity of the Platonic musical training depends mainly upon the constant and efficacious choric activity of the old citizens.
Footnote 55: This triple distribution of classes for choric instruction and practice is borrowed from Spartan customs, Plutarch, Lykurgus, 21; Schol.
Choric practice and ceremonies 290 Music and dancing--imitation of the voice and movements of brave and virtuous men.
Side-note: Choric and orchestic movements, their effect in discharging strong emotions.
This is Plato's theory about the healing effects of the choric and orchestic religious ceremonies of his day.
The lawgiver must follow this example, and fix the type of his musical and choric exhibitions; forbidding all innovation introduced on the plea of greater satisfaction either to the poet or to the audience.
Imitative dancing, choric movements, and procession, shall also be taught, but always in arms, to familiarise the youth with military details.
The choric festivals, in which the youths and maidens will take part, both of them naked as far as a sober modesty will allow, present occasions for mutual acquaintance between them, which serves as foundation for marriage.
It is on the constancy, strictness, and sameness of these choric and musical influences, that he relies for the emotional training of youth.
NOON TO ANITA FOCKE Charmed into silence lay The forest, dimly lit; No wind that summer day Moved the least leaf of it; No choric branches stirred Its calm profound and deep, Nor voice of any bird, But silence dreamed like sleep.
Now the order of motion is called rhythm, and the order of the voice, in which high and low are duly mingled, is called harmony; and both together are termed choric song.
The first step was the addition to the old choric song of an interlude spoken, and in early days improvised, by the leader of the chorus (Poet.
With this canon in his hands Euripides measured all the separate elements of the drama, and rectified them according to his principle: the language, the characters, the dramaturgic structure, and the choric music.
The formal education of Spartan boys consisted mainly of gymnastics, music, choric dancing, and larceny.
The former was sought to be imparted by means of a rigorous and often cruel, system of gymnastics; the latter, through choric music and dancing, including military drill.
Presently they commence to sing while they haul up the anchor, and a rowing boat passing us with Negro oarsmen is also choric with bright, hard, rhythmic music.
